Garment-support



(No Model.)

` W. E. JACKSON.

GARME-NT SUPPORT.

No. 535,377. mentaal/Iam, 12, 1895.

WIZWE'SSES ma Nonms Pzrzns co. wuorouua, WASHINGTON, o. c.

Nrn raras Arent erre eAeMENT-SUPPO'RT.

SECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,877, dated March 12,1 895. Application filed March 20,1894. Serial No. 504,367. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom it' may concer-m l Be it known that I, WALLACE EDWARDJACKSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in thecounty of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Garment-Supports; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in garment supporters, andparticularly to that class employed for supporting hose.

The objects of my invention are to produce a device that is preferablyconstructed of round wire, and therefore incapable of cutting orinjuring the fabric with which it is connected; which is easy tomanufacture; and simple in its formation and readily applied anddetached to and from the hose; and when in position will not tear out orinjure the hose; and will be secure under all circumstances.

With these and other objects in view my invention consists in certainfeatures of construction hereinafter specified and particularly pointedout in the claims.

Referring to the drawingsz-Figure 1 is a perspective View of the upperportion of a stocking or hose showing my invention appliedto the usualsuspension tapes, and in position upon the hose. Fig. 2 is a detail ofthe locking member of the device; Fig. 3, a similar View of thereceiving member; Fig. 4t, a cross-section on the line -x of Fig. 3;Fig. 5, a detail of a modified form of receiving member.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures ot'the drawings.

It is my intention in the manufacture of this device to construct thesame wholly of round spring wire, in that I thereby avoid any sharpedges that can in any way mar or cut the stocking, and as before statedI am enabled, as will hereinafter appear, to readily produce the partscomposing the invention, rendering the same capable of manufacture at aslight cost.

I employ what I term a lockingsmember 1, and a receiving member 2, and Iwillproceed to detail the construction of each.

ing 5. Beyond this elliptical eye or opening 5 the terminals recontactand after extending a short distance to form a shank 6 they are 6abruptly diverged and bent to form the transverse loop or eye 7, whichis attached to one terminal of the tape-support 8 shown in Fig. 1.

'Ihe receiving member,like its companion,

is in the preferred form, produced from a 7o single blank or piece ofwire of proper length, the same having its center part bent around theshank 9 of a cylindrically headed stud 10, the head of said stud beingrounded and circular as shown. By bending the blank around the shank 9 Iproduce at the middle of the wire an eye 11. The terminals 12 formed bythus4 bending the blank, extend parallel to each other a distance toform a shank 13 of proper length, and thence are abruptly diverged andbent to form a transverse loop or eye la which receives the lower end ofthe companion tape-support 8, shown in Fig. 1.

If preferred, the terminals 6 of the locking member 1, and the terminals12 of the receiving member 2 may each be encompassed or inclosed by asheet metal sleeve or clip 15 whereby said terminals are prevented fromspreading, and wire of small gage maybe ernployed without danger of theparts becoming separated by reason of the strain to which they aresubjected.

I may, without sacrificing some of the ad- Vantages of my invention,construct the receiving member of sheet metal. I lhave illustrated inFig. 5, wherein 16 designates a sheet metal shank whose upper end iswidened and provided with a slot or loop 17 to engage with the tapesupport, and whose lower end is enlarged to form a disk-like head rec18. This head has set therein in any suitable manner a headed stud 19.This moditied form of receiving member coacts with the locking member inthe same manner as Such form does the form illustrated in Fig. 2, and ina manner that I will now describe.

In operation the receiving member is inserted between the leg` of thewearer and the stocking and pressed outwardly against the latter, afterWhich the locking member being grasped by the other hand of the operatorand slightly turned may be sprung over the headed stud l1, the fabric ofthe stocking being caught between the two and covering the headed-stud,thus giving the appearance of a cloth covered button. The loop or eye 5which engages the stud ll is slightly less in width than the diameter ofthe head ot the stud 1l, and hence can only be engaged with it by apartial turning or tilting ot the locking member, and such position canonly be given to thelocking member by hand. Hence when a connection isonce made it is impossible for any accidental disconnection to takeplace, and such disconnection can only take place by the tilting orturning described. This device, it will be seen, does not rely upon thestrain of the tapes S for maintaining it in position, and it cannotbecome disconnected no matter how loose the tapes may get.

I do not limit my invention to the precise details of constructionherein shown and described and as illustrated. Such slight changes maybe made as are Within the knowledge and skill ofthe mechanic Withoutsacricing the advantages of or departing from the spirit of myinvention.

Having described my invention, what I claim isl. The herein describedgarment supporter, the same consisting of the receiving and lockingmembers each being formed of a single piece of round Wire, the receivingmember having the blank ot Wire from which it is formed bent at itscenter, and having seated therein the headed stud lO and beyond the samehaving its terminals 12 extended to form the shank 13, and beyond thesame laterally disposed to produce the loop 14, and the locking memberhaving the blank from which it is formed bent at its center at 3, andits terminals t continued in contact a short distance, diverged andreconverged to produce an elliptical loop or eye 5 of less Width thanthe diameter of the headed stud 10, and beyond said eye or loop extendedto form the shank 6, and finali)T laterally bent to form the loop 7,substantially as specified.

2. The herein described garment supporter, the same consisting ot thereceiving and locking members each being formed of a single piece ofround Wire, the receiving member having the blank of wire from which itis formed bent at its center, and having seated therein the headed studl() and beyond the same having its terminals l2 extended to form theshank 13, and beyond the saine laterally disposed to produce the loop14, and the locking member having the blank from which it is formed bentat its center at 3, and its terminals 4 continued in contact a shortdistance, diverged and reconverged to produce an elliptical loop or eye5 of less Width than the diameter of the headed stud lO, and beyond saideye or loop extended to form the shank 6, and finally laterally bent toform the loop 7, and the sheet metal clips l5 embracing the terminals 12of the receiving member, and the terminals 6 ot the locking member,substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WALLACE EDWARD JACKSON.

Vitnesses:

ANsoN F. ABBOTT, L. P. PITT.

